**English** | [中文](../zh/pet-animal.md) [← All prompt templates](../../../README.md#-prompt-templates-by-category) · [Template index](./README.md) # 📱 Pets and animals as the lead > The animal is the lead and a phone is the only camera. Lock the count to exactly one, keep the animal behaving like an animal, and let the payoff come from it closing in on the lens.
A Cat's Cozy Day Filmed as a Selfie Vlog Kitten Steals a Hair Tie and Pounces at the Camera Dog Steals the Spotlight in a Mirror Selfie Hiker and Macaque in a Head-Tilt Battle
## Copy this Hit the copy button on the block, replace everything in [square brackets] with your own details, and send it to any AI chat (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) together with your reference images. It will write a Seedance-ready prompt for you that follows this template. ````text I want a handheld selfie video where my pet steals the shot. [My pet is a chubby orange cat with a small notch in her right ear.] [While I film a selfie she climbs onto my shoulder and ends up pressing her nose against the lens.] Using the prompt template below, rewrite it into one ready-to-use Seedance video prompt for me: #### Pets and animals as the lead The animal is the lead and a phone is the only camera. Lock the count to exactly one, keep the animal behaving like an animal, and let the payoff come from it closing in on the lens. **Use when:** Selfie and vlog clips where a cat, dog or wild animal hijacks the frame, plus photoreal wildlife comedy built on one real animal behaviour. **Guidance:** - Write the count as a hard number and make that one animal physically continuous. The dog mirror case says `Use exactly ONE small playful dog throughout the entire video` plus `No duplicate animal`; the kitten vlog case itemises `consistent fur pattern, eye color, size, whiskers, ears, paws`. - Give the animal its own behaviour paragraph. The macaque case opens an ANIMAL BEHAVIOR block with `No talking, no human clothing, no human-like walking`, and rests the whole joke on the monkey copying the hiker's head tilt. - Buy realism with a list of camera defects. The cat day-in-the-life vlog asks for `Natural handheld shake`, `Occasional autofocus hunting` and `Natural front-camera lens distortion`, then bans `No cinematic camera movements`. - Escalate beat by beat and land on the lens. The dog case closes with `Its nose fills a large part of the frame`, the image losing focus and regaining it; the rainy-day kitten ends with a paw at the corner of the lens and the clip cutting off mid-laugh. - Keep the audio diegetic. The cat vlog's closing audio block lists only meows, purring, chirping and footsteps and states `No background music`; the dog case says `Natural room ambience only`. **Examples:** [#1](https://goodcase.ai/cases/zarairahh-seedance-ai-f89372941867) [#2](https://goodcase.ai/cases/seedance-she-thought-it-was-going-to-be-a-peaceful-rainy-day-selfie-f0bf765977dd) [#3](https://goodcase.ai/cases/seedance-pov-you-wanted-a-cute-mirror-selfie-but-your-dog-wanted-to-be-the-main-charac-3d3e83219d46) [#4](https://goodcase.ai/cases/synthesarah-seedance-ai-636eef3e35c4) **Structure:** 1. Reference and subject block: lock the person with a reference image if anyone is on camera, and state that there is exactly one animal, the same one throughout 2. Format block: duration, vertical 9:16, handheld front-camera selfie, indoor daylight, no grading and no beauty filter 3. Camera block: arm drift, imperfect framing, autofocus hunting, no cuts, no zoom, no third-person operator 4. Body split by seconds, each block pushing the animal one step further: notices, reaches, steals, climbs, attacks the lens 5. The human reaction and a half-finished line written into the same beat 6. Audio block: a list of on-set sounds, no music, no subtitles, no watermark 7. Strict constraints to close: one person, one animal, no second animal, correct mirror physics, no camera operator **Pitfalls:** - Leaving the count open. A second animal or a duplicated reflection shows up mid-clip; the dog case pins it down with `Exactly one woman. Exactly one dog.` and `No duplicate reflection`. - Letting the animal talk or walk like a person. The clip slides into cartoon territory; the macaque case bans it outright and puts the joke back on real animal behaviour. - Writing full sentences for the human. The performer has to laugh and speak at once and the lip sync falls apart; cut the line to a broken half like `You little—`. - Adding cinematic moves and colour grading out of habit. The phone-footage feel dies immediately; write no cinematic lighting, no color grading, no cuts, no zoom. ```` ## Three steps | Step | What to do | | --- | --- | | 1 | Copy the whole block above and replace the [bracketed] parts with your product, person or scene. Attach reference images if you can. | | 2 | Send it to any AI chat and get back a Seedance prompt written to this structure. | | 3 | Paste that prompt into Seedance (Dreamina / Jimeng) and generate. If the result is off, check the pitfalls first, then adjust and re-run. | ## Cases in this category (15 filed, by heat) | Preview | Case | Version | Heat | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Fox’s Self-Filmed Walk Along a Forest Stream | [Fox’s Self-Filmed Walk Along a Forest Stream](https://goodcase.ai/cases/mrdasonx-seedance-ai-ccaa50150259) | 2.5 | 92 | | A Cat's Cozy Day Filmed as a Selfie Vlog | [A Cat's Cozy Day Filmed as a Selfie Vlog](https://goodcase.ai/cases/zarairahh-seedance-ai-f89372941867) | 2.5 | 87 | | Cats Chasing via Red Mini Motorcycle | [Cats Chasing via Red Mini Motorcycle](https://goodcase.ai/cases/cats-chasing-via-red-mini-motorcycle) | 2.0 | 81 | | Underwater Animal Orchestra | [Underwater Animal Orchestra](https://goodcase.ai/cases/underwater-animal-orchestra) | 2.5 | 76 | | Kitten Steals a Hair Tie and Pounces at the Camera | [Kitten Steals a Hair Tie and Pounces at the Camera](https://goodcase.ai/cases/seedance-she-thought-it-was-going-to-be-a-peaceful-rainy-day-selfie-f0bf765977dd) | 2.5 | 69 | | Dog Steals the Spotlight in a Mirror Selfie | [Dog Steals the Spotlight in a Mirror Selfie](https://goodcase.ai/cases/seedance-pov-you-wanted-a-cute-mirror-selfie-but-your-dog-wanted-to-be-the-main-charac-3d3e83219d46) | 2.5 | 67 | | POV: Your Kitten Vlog, but the Kitten Chooses Violence | [POV: Your Kitten Vlog, but the Kitten Chooses Violence](https://goodcase.ai/cases/seedance-pov-you-try-to-make-a-cute-kitten-vlog-and-your-kitten-chooses-violence-d052169bcc1d) | 2.5 | 59 | | From the Birth of the Universe to Humanity | [From the Birth of the Universe to Humanity](https://goodcase.ai/cases/seedance-create-a-30-second-ultra-photorealistic-cinematic-documentary-showing-the-evolu-c0bf04a67f0e) | 2.5 | 54 | | Hiker and Macaque in a Head-Tilt Battle | [Hiker and Macaque in a Head-Tilt Battle](https://goodcase.ai/cases/synthesarah-seedance-ai-636eef3e35c4) | 2.5 | 52 | | Brown Bear Cub Drives a Vintage Blue Car Through a Farm | [Brown Bear Cub Drives a Vintage Blue Car Through a Farm](https://goodcase.ai/cases/seedance-created-a-video-in-a-cinematic-ultra-realistic-storytelling-style-a-cute-brow-b80e0e8035f5) | 2.0 | 42 | | Kittens Share a Rose and Cuddle on a Sunset Beach | [Kittens Share a Rose and Cuddle on a Sunset Beach](https://goodcase.ai/cases/seedance-made-with-seedance-2-5-cf24080a2c69) | 2.5 | 37 | | Brave Rooster Rescues Three Chicks from a Raging River | [Brave Rooster Rescues Three Chicks from a Raging River](https://goodcase.ai/cases/seedance-made-with-seedance-2-5-30882311d898) | 2.5 | 31 | The other 3 are in the [full gallery](../../gallery.md) and on [goodcase.ai](https://goodcase.ai/cases?filter=video&q=seedance&utm_source=awesome-seedance). --- [← Previous: Early-2000s DV home video](./retro-found-footage.md) · [Next: UGC creator review with spoken lines →](./ugc-creator-review.md)